Support This Project
All donations go directly toward infrastructure costs. This is a personal project with no organization or overhead. Your support helps keep AreTheyInvolved.com running and accessible to everyone.
What Donations Fund
Server Hosting
Hetzner VPS, PostgreSQL database, and automated backups
Cloud Storage
Dropbox and Google Drive for document backups
GPU Compute
NER, OCR, and LLM processing on Lambda Labs GPUs (€2.76/hr per H100)
Domain & CDN
Cloudflare CDN, SSL certificates, aretheyinvolved.com domain
Potential Improvements
- Audio & video processing: Transcribe and extract names from multimedia files (requires more compute)
- Enhanced document cross-referencing: Improved context extraction and document linking
- Entity connection graphs: Visual maps showing relationships between people across documents
These improvements require significant compute resources (GPUs for transcription and processing).
Cloud storage needed: We need ~400GB of object storage to host all documents for in-browser viewing. Currently, users must navigate to justice.gov for some datasets. If you can donate storage or CDN bandwidth, please contact me.